Imitation tiling.



A. F. PAPIN. IMITATION TILING.

APPLICATION FILED MAR 12, 1908.

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

ALFRED F. PAPIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMITA'DION TILING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 196st Application filed March 12, 1908 Serial No. 420,664.

. appearance of the ordinary tile, without the comparatively high cost thereof and without the llability of breaking away from the wall, which is incidental to the use of the ordinary vitreous tiles.

With this and other objects in view that will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions and arrangements of the parts tlliat I shall hereinafter fully describe, and 0 mm.

For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof, and to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction, reference is to behad to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view of a tile embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a perspective View of a complete imitation tile, and, Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description, and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the same reference characters.

My improved tile imitation comprises a facing 1 and a two-layer backing, of which the layers are designatedZ and 3 respectively.

In carrying out the invention, I may form the facing 1 of a glazing made with a'compound of white lead coated with resin, and applied while still hot and in a plastic state, on the layer 2 of the backing, being finished with pumice stone powdered. The layer 2 of the backing of the tile imitation may be composed of plaster of parismixed with a solution of al'um, and applied on the rear layer 3 of the backing, said rear layer being preferably com osed of papier-mach. This rear layer 3, a ter the complete tile imitation has been formed, is directly ap lied to the wall to be covered, and is cause to adhere thereto by means of a stron paste.

The facing 1 is lined or blocked o as desired.

As an alternative and equivalent method of constructing my improved tile imitation, the plaster of aris mixed witha solution of alum is applie to the papier-mach backing or layer 3, and the facing l of glazing niay be produced by merely sizin the plaster of paris after it has become by. assing a coat of enamel over the outer face t ereof.

In the preferred proportions, that is, thicknesses, of the parts in the completed article which ma be of a thickness of threeeighths of an inc the pa ier-mach layer 3 of the backing is preferab y one-eighth of an inch thick, the plaster of paris three-sixteenths of an inch, and the facing one-sixteenth of an inch when it is composed of the first named ingredients. If the facing 1 or glazing is in the form of a coat of enamel applied to the plaster of paris, the thiclmess of the facing is correspondingly decreased, and it may be about one thirty-second of an inch thick instead of one-sixteenth of an inch.

Preferably, the tile imitation of my invention is manufactured in definite sizes, and to efiectually conceal the joint between two tiles, the side edges of adjacent tiles break joint with each other, as indicated at 4. That is to say, each side edge is provided with a plurality of rectangular'recesses designed to receive corres ondingl shaped tongues formed on the ad acent e go of the next section.

' From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, it will be seen that I have provided a very simple, durable and efiicient construction of tile 1 imitation which may be used in many in- 5 I claim 1s:

stances to take the pilace of the ordinary vitreous tile, and w ch may be cheaply manufactured and easily applied. A 1 Having thus described the invention, what An imitation tile of the character described, composed of three layers, to Wit: a backing layer of papier-mach to which a layer of plaster of paris is applied, said plaster of paris being of integral formation 10 as a layer and a facing of glazing adhering to the plaster of paris layer. In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

T ALFRED F. PAPIN. Witnesses:

FRANK C. HoBBs, HENRY C. KELLEY. 

